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6-51-203. Determining school location and establishing courses of instruction.
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6-51-203. Determining school location and establishing courses of instruction.
(a) In determining the location of technical institutes or vocational-technical schools and in establishing the courses of instruction to be offered in the schools, the State Board of Education shall give consideration to:
(1) Trends in industrial development;
(2) Concentration of population;
(3) Concentration of industry;
(4) Natural resources; and
(5) Reasonable distance for people in all areas of the state.
(b)(1) The State Board of Education shall develop a course content syllabus for each course of instruction offered in a postsecondary technical institute or vocational-technical school. The course syllabus for each course of instruction shall specify the essential competencies to be taught in the course of instruction.
(2)(A) Each instructor employed in a postsecondary technical institute or vocational-technical school shall utilize the appropriate course syllabus in providing instruction to postsecondary vocational students.
(B) It shall be the responsibility of the director of each postsecondary technical institute or vocational-technical school to ensure that vocational-technical instructors utilize the course syllabi developed pursuant to the provisions of this section in offering instruction to postsecondary vocational-technical students.
(3) The course syllabi required to be developed pursuant to the provisions of this section shall be adopted by the State Board of Education not later than July 1, 1990, and shall be utilized in postsecondary technical institutes or vocational-technical schools in the school year beginning 1990-1991.
(c)(1) The State Board of Education and the Arkansas Higher Education Coordinating Board are hereby authorized to certify certai
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 6-51-203
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6-51-203. Determining school location and establishing courses of instruction.
(a) In determining the location of technical institutes or vocational-technical schools and in establishing the courses of instruction to be offered in the schools, the State Board of Education shall give consideration to:
(1) Trends in industrial development;
(2) Concentration of population;
(3) Concentration of industry;
(4) Natural resources; and
(5) Reasonable distance for people in all areas of the state.
(b)(1) The State Board of Education shall develop a course content syllabus for each course of instruction offered in a postsecondary technical institute or vocational-technical school. The course syllabus for each course of instruction shall specify the essential competencies to be taught in the course of instruction.
(2)(A) Each instructor employed in a postsecondary technical institute or vocational-technical school shall utilize the appropriate course syllabus in providing instruction to postsecondary vocational students.
(B) It shall be the responsibility of the director of each postsecondary technical institute or vocational-technical school to ensure that vocational-technical instructors utilize the course syllabi developed pursuant to the provisions of this section in offering instruction to postsecondary vocational-technical students.
(3) The course syllabi required to be developed pursuant to the provisions of this section shall be adopted by the State Board of Education not later than July 1, 1990, and shall be utilized in postsecondary technical institutes or vocational-technical schools in the school year beginning 1990-1991.
(c)(1) The State Board of Education and the Arkansas Higher Education Coordinating Board are hereby authorized to certify certain courses of instruction offered by postsecondary technical institutes or vocational-technical schools as being equivalent to comparable courses offered by public two-year or four-year institutions of higher education.
(2) Any course of instruction offered by postsecondary technical institutes or vocational-technical schools that is certified as equivalent to a comparable course of instruction offered by a two-year or four-year institution of higher education shall be transferable for credit to a public two-year or four-year institution of higher education.
(d) The Arkansas Higher Education Coordinating Board and the State Board of Education shall promulgate rules for implementation of the provisions of this section in accordance with the accreditation standards of the receiving institutions.
(e) Students who matriculate at institutions of higher education shall meet the same standards for college and university admission as are defined in § 6-61-110.
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6-61-110. Testing of entering freshmen for remedial courses.
(a) A first-time entering freshman at a state-supported institution of higher education who is admitted to enroll in an associate or a bachelor's degree program shall be tested by the admitting institution for purposes of placement in either college-level credit courses in English and mathematics or remedial courses in English composition, reading, and mathematics.
(b) Remedial courses shall not provide credit toward a degree.
(c)(1) The Arkansas Higher Education Coordinating Board shall determine the:
(A) Test or other criteria to be used;
(B) Testing procedures and exemptions;
(C) Minimum scores or criteria below which students at all state-supported institutions of higher education must take remedial courses; and
(D) Minimum scores or criteria to allow simultaneous enrollment in college-level credit and remedial courses.
(2) The board shall base these decisions on:
(A) Consultation with representatives of the state-supported institutions of higher education;
(B) Analysis of the placement procedures presently used by institutions in the state;
(C) Statewide placement testing programs in other states; and
(D) Pilot projects involving testing of entering freshmen at selected institutions in the state.
(3) The board, in collaboration with state-supported institutions of higher education, shall develop by institution uniform measurable exit standards for remedial courses that are comparable to the ACT or SAT equivalent required for college-level enrollment in credit courses to be implemented no later than the fall semester of 2010.
(d)(1) The board shall work with state-supported institutions of higher education to:
(A) Develop innovative alternatives to traditional instruction and
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 6-61-110
Stored review status: Historical 2020-11-06 source release; later amendments not reconciled; machine-extracted, not independently legally reviewed; source heading status: text_in_historical_source. The source passage cites 6-61-110. This identifies an authority to review, not proof of applicability.